SambaNova

SambaNova is seeking a Principal Engineer to own kernel-level drivers and low-level software for high-speed IO, memory, and networking subsystems within the DataScale® platform and RDU architecture. This role is central to delivering reliable, high-performance AI systems at scale. This is a hands-on Linux kernel and device driver role; it is not an application or platform software role. You will lead software bring-up of new silicon, deliver production drivers across the IO, memory, and network data paths, and debug complex issues spanning kernel, firmware, and hardware. This role suits an engineer with deep kernel and driver expertise and strong hardware fluency, who can operate in ambiguity and execute with high ownership.

$180k - $255k

SambaNova is seeking a Principal Design Verification Engineer to take ownership of the verification for their next-generation RDU, the core silicon powering their machine learning and AI systems. This senior individual contributor role involves defining the test plan, testbench architecture, coverage model, and sign-off criteria. You will also play a key part in shaping the team's infrastructure, reuse strategies, and overall verification practices. You will collaborate closely with principal engineers from design, architecture, compiler, and runtime teams, leveraging their experience to verify the chip against production ML workloads.

$180k - $255k

The SambaStack team is seeking an Engineering Director to lead a software engineering team while remaining a hands-on technical contributor. You will own the growth and effectiveness of your team, the technical quality of their output, and the roadmap for the inference serving platform. You will continue to design systems and write code on the platform's hardest problems, contributing directly as a software engineer on critical platform initiatives.

$245k - $325k

SambaNova is seeking a Senior RDU System Architect to join their team. This role is crucial in transforming silicon into shippable AI infrastructure, specifically focusing on SambaRack-class server and rack designs, the interconnect fabric linking RDUs, and the power and cooling systems required for dense AI compute. You will define the architecture from board to cluster level, make critical build, buy, and co-design decisions with hardware partners, and author the specifications they will build to. The position involves guiding the platform from initial architecture definition through bring-up, qualification, and fleet deployment, ensuring alignment with product and customer priorities.

$250k - $350k

SambaNova is seeking a Compiler Architect to join their team and drive innovation in compiler infrastructure and optimization algorithms. This critical role involves working with various layers of the compiler stack and coordinating with development teams to ensure state-of-the-art ML model performance on the SambaNova platform. Responsibilities include analyzing PyTorch and machine learning models to map operations onto the company's unique dataflow hardware.

$210k - $280k

SambaNova is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our Customer Success Organization. In this role, you will embed directly with strategic enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production Generative AI applications on SambaNova's SN40L platform and SambaStack product portfolio. You will architect and implement LLM-powered workflows, optimize AI inference performance on SambaNova hardware, and troubleshoot end-to-end production issues. This position requires translating customer needs into product requirements and serving as the voice of field reality to our Product and Engineering teams. You will also partner with sales teams to shape technical strategy and demonstrate platform differentiation.

$138k - $170k

As a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you will specialize in our AI Inferencing Service, acting as the guardian of its reliability, performance, and scalability. You will bridge the gap between software development and operations, applying an engineering mindset to solve operational challenges. Your primary focus will be ensuring our inference endpoints have exceptional uptime, low-latency response times, and efficient resource utilization, directly impacting the experience of our customers and the success of our AI products. This role includes participating in a shared on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 service reliability.

$210k - $280k

SambaNova is seeking a talented and driven ML performance engineer to optimize and scale state-of-the-art foundation models on SambaNova's reconfigurable dataflow platform. You will work hands-on with advanced models to push the limits of throughput, latency, and efficiency. This role bridges the gap between deep learning and systems performance, collaborating across compiler, runtime, and hardware layers to deliver world-record performance for large-scale AI inference.

$180k - $255k

SambaNova is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate, AI Content & Community to enhance the visibility and utility of its AI infrastructure technology. This role involves hands-on development of compelling demos and applications using SambaCloud, alongside building relationships within the developer ecosystem to amplify SambaNova's offerings. The ideal candidate will be adept at prototyping, clearly explaining complex technology, and effectively communicating through various media, including live presentations and digital content.

$196k - $240k

SambaNova is seeking a Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer, a hands-on technical leader responsible for setting the technical direction of their solutions portfolio and actively building agentic applications. This role involves transforming customer problems into polished, production-ready applications rapidly. You will work across the entire modern AI stack, including open-weight models, agent frameworks, self-improving evaluation loops, multimodal and voice pipelines, and user-friendly front-end interfaces. You will lead engagements with strategic customers, mentor the solutions team, and provide valuable feedback to the platform. This position requires expertise in designing and building reliable single- and multi-agent systems with advanced features like planning, tool/function calling, and long-running workflows. You will also develop feedback loops for continuous improvement of agents, including automated evaluations and fine-tuning. A key aspect is setting up robust evaluation, tracing, and guardrails to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and latency for deployed solutions.

$234k - $286k

As a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing machine learning models, with a focus on cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs), to run efficiently on SambaNova's specialized hardware architecture, including the RDU. This critical role bridges advanced LLM research and practical deployment, involving the development of model architectures, improving training and inference efficiency, and collaborating on hardware-software co-design with compiler, systems, and hardware teams. The engineer will also act as the ML expert, guiding the integration of LLM solutions into production systems and customer-facing products like SambaStack and SambaCloud, with work spanning the full lifecycle from training and inference to evaluation and data curation.

$220k - $300k

SambaNova is seeking a Software Architect to join the SambaStack platform team. This role involves defining the technical direction and architectural strategy for an AI inference platform that serves enterprise AI workloads on SambaNova's RDU hardware. You will own cross-cutting architectural decisions, ensuring the platform meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability, reliability, and performance. This is a high-impact position at the intersection of AI infrastructure, enterprise software, systems architecture, and developer experience.

$245k - $325k